Latest inventions in medicine

	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
... 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in science, medicine and technology. Some of these inventions may seem weird and hilarious nevertheless they are truly breakthroughs in science. Medicine Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was awarded for the in-depth report that a...
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	HIV Drug Persists in Breast Milk
...drug helps reduce the risk of HIV transmission by 50 percent, to nearly 13 percent. But very few women who live in the sub-Saharan Africa have access to the zidovudine and/or nevirapine. In their latest study, researchers from Stanford tried to better understand the issue. Scientists observed a group of 32 women infected with HIV living in Zimbabwe. Together with his associates David Katzenstein has performed research...
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	European Union is Angry on Microsoft
...e with Brussels, the company faced further fines for seeking unreasonable prices from the software developers for vital data. The European Union criticized Microsoft. The EU executive stated that the latest formal charges might lead the American software corporation to additional daily penalties. Jonathan Todd, the competition spokesman of European Commission, said that the EU, for the first time in its antitrust policy...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...afic project unite to collect the DNA database all over the world so to make every person aware of the place where his or her ancestors come from. The National Geographic Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find tr...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...es. Nowadays no one should feel indifferent about the serious consequences that global warming entails. One of the main goals set on the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in Washington, where Bush administration was criticized for inadequate response to global warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new commit...
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
...Researchers at the University of Washington have probably found a way to defeat the bacteria, which become more and more resistant to drugs. A new method of fighting such bacteria was recently used and it proved to be successful on mice. One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the c...
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	CBS acquires an online high school sports network
...in promoting not only the sports stars, but will also show the entire nation the upcoming stars in all kinds of national sports. He said that this transaction will keep millions of people informed on latest high school sports events and will entertain sport communities based around high schools. Mr. Beal will retain his seat, yet obliged to report to Brian Bedol, the President and CEO of the CSTV Networks, Inc. MaxPreps...
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...heroin and cocaine. Tobacco was placed ninth and fell within a category B drug, after amphetamine. Such dangerous drugs as cannabis, LSD, ecstasy were left far near the end of the drug list. This latest study raised the question that government's drug policy was not paying enough attention to modern state of affairs and didn't take notice of the scientific findings. There should be no surprise that ecstasy drug was...
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	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
...Users who work with the latest versions of Windows should be aware that they are at a great risk of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its...
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	New chocolate can save the planet
...and many other vitamins. And now those who know what pure chocolate tastes like have an opportunity not only to enjoy a new product but to do it with the awareness they are environment-friendly. A latest trend in chocolate industry is the production of raw chocolate that is claimed to be not less tasty but far more nutritional for people. UK brought in raw chocolate production three years ago and some raw communiti...
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	Now one blood group fits everyone
...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another. The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
... B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t...
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	Difficult child-good marriage conquers all
...The latest research showed that couples who have supportive marital relationships can deal with disturbing children easier and this only makes their marriage stronger. A new study was conducted by Schoppe Sullivan, Sarah Mangelsdorf, Geoffrey Brown from University of Illinois together with Margaret Szewczyk from University of Minneapolis. The study involved 97 couples expecting a baby who were examined for the exten...
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	Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...Surgery can take a huge step towards the future due to a new surgical robot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine. It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a lea...
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